Will The Uttar Pradesh Polls Mark The End Of The BJP's Multi Caste Hindutva Vote Base?

The exodus of OBC allies from the BJP camp has led to this question: Will the assembly polls mark the end of the ruling party’s multi-caste hindutva vote base

Difficult To Emulate Virat, The Born Leader

Draws were not good enough for Virat Kohli, and this helped him deliver the wins he needed to take India to the top of Test cricket

FREEING THE FILMMAKER

Filmocracy, a Kerala collective, is making cinema a possibility for many young indie filmmakers

No alternative to privatising banking sector

INTERVIEW ARVIND PANAGARIYA, economist

MOTHER IN VERSE

In translating Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s poetry from Bangla, Nandana Dev Sen understood her mother a lot better and also found a place of refuge

TAKING FRESH GUARD

Virat Kohli’s decision to step down as Test captain was an emotional one, but not one taken in haste. A change of guard in the BCCI and lack of communication led to India’s most successful Test captain walking away. The silver lining could be the return of the champion batter

Weaponised drones will be next-gen terror tactics

INTERVIEW M.A. Ganapathy director general, National Security Guard

WATER BOOSTER

An abruptly ended march might have triggered the Congress’s political redemption in Karnataka

Weaponising space not ISRO's mandate

INTERVIEW: S. SOMANATH, chief of ISRO

By March, Covid Will Become Endemic

Interview DR D. NAGESHWAR REDDY, Chairman, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad

A TALE OF TWO INDIAS

Two years of living with the virus have changed the way many Indians earn their livelihood

Alt option

The Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign is based on the firm belief that Punjabi voters want change this time

Bird that soared

Lal Bahadur Shastri might have irreversibly established secularism

I FEAR FOR MY LIFE

Interview ALINA CHAN, Researcher

CHILDHOOD PAUSED

In the long term, kids may be the biggest victims of the pandemic—having suffered losses in learning and at psychosocial and developmental levels

CARE ON CALL

Apollo Hospitals played a pioneering role in mainstreaming telehealth services during the Covid-19 pandemic

NO CHILD'S PLAY

Tamil Nadu’s ambitious scheme is helping children fall back in love with learning

MAKE HEALTH CARE A NATIONAL PRIORITY

Interview DR PRATHAP C. REDDYChairman, Apollo Hospitals

Upgrading for the challenge

Even as hospitals in India battle Omicron and a surge in Covid-19 cases, they are building a health care system that will make them pandemic-proof

The lion and the lamb

His reign began with one crisis, and ended with another—not personal or political crises, but national crises that changed not only the discourse of Indian politics, but the polity itself.

Shifting school

Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru left an indelible mark on the country’s polity, defining the contours of its political, economic, social and cultural life.

On the right track

Two recent books look at hindutva, but each has a different take. While Christophe Jaffrelot’s latest talks about how Hindu nationalism turned India into an Israel-like ethnic democracy, Ram Madhav’s book puts forward a homegrown ideology that aims to be different from isms of the west

Silver linings playbook

India has hit upon a bevy of services and products for the elderly

RRR is emotionally more hard-hitting than Baahubali

INTERVIEW: S.S. Rajamouli, filmmaker

Poll positioning

The Shiromani Akali Dal is bringing in more Hindus, including dalits, and wants to position itself as the sole regional party for Punjabis

Masters, anew

In its most ambitious undertaking, the Delhi Art Gallery is laying out a banquet of the rarest finds in Indian art

Law And The New Low

In an “ambush” on December 4, a unit of 21 Para Special Forces killed six innocent, un-armed miners in broad daylight in Mon district of Nagaland under the impression that they were armed cadres of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Khaplang-Yung Aung) faction.

Inside Story Of Attacks On Our Banks, Airlines, Railways... And The Fighback

Cyberattacks by criminals and rival states like China on critical infrastructure sectors have become a major threat to national security. THE WEEK explains how India fights back by beefing up its online defences and making rapid strides in hacking techniques, cryptography, reverse engineering and forensics

Work at play

When video games become jobs, are they still worth playing?

INDIA SHOULD BE SEEN AS SAFE DESTINATION FOR GLOBAL IT CAPABILITY CENTRES

INTERVIEW RAMA VEDASHREE CEO, DSCI